Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed the cross to St. Oswald’s after his retirement in 2013. Benedict celebrated his first Mass as a newly ordained priest at St. Oswald’s in 1951. A Service of EWTN ...

Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed a pectoral cross to St. Oswald’s Church in the city of Traunstein in Bavaria after his retirement in 2013. The cross was stolen June 19, 2023, from the church.

He had only received the information two days earlier from Benedict Arnold ... silver military medals, now considered to be the first ever awarded to American soldiers. Two of the three were ...